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'The Graduation Song' gives choice advice to high school graduates
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By Shereen Dindar | Shine On – Fri, 24 May, 2013 4:17 PM EDT
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For those of you who found your ambitious expectations and hopes for a new adult life tampered by a dose of reality once you graduated high school and arrived at university, college or elsewhere, you'll appreciate the humour in "The Graduation Song" video by Rhett & Link.

Rhett & Link lay down the hard facts about life after graduation in this funny video. (YouTube screen grab)Rhett & Link video production company is owned by the dynamic duo of life-long best friends, Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal, who are well-known for their internet videos. Their comedic work has been featured numerous places including "Conan," E! News, TMZ, "The Jay Leno Show," "Last Call with Carson Daly," and "Ellen."

In their latest video, they belt out lines from "The Graduation Song" aimed at easing the transition from teenage life to adulthood.

Also see: New York City chef serves up eight-course meal around 'Arrested Development'

The song was originally performed at an actual graduation ceremony last summer, but they've re-invented it with a clever one-take video where they sport multiple outfits and use multiple
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New York City chef serves up eight-course meal around ‘Arrested Development’ jokes
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By Shereen Dindar | Shine On – Fri, 24 May, 2013 2:34 PM EDT
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Chef Pip Freeman's take on 'hot ham water' (Chef Pip Freeman/New York Daily News)Anyone a fan of the popular television series "Arrested Development"? If so, you're likely familiar with the cult comedy's many food-related jokes.

This is why it's fitting that Brooklyn restaurant Three Letters is offering a $45 eight-course menu inspired by the hit series this Sunday, the same day the show makes its triumphant return on Netflix.

Chef Pip Freeman, 33, says the tasting menu is made around the Bluth family's notoriously awful diet, including items like "hot ham water" and a "mayonegg."

"Most of the jokes are about how bad the food is," Freeman tells the New York Daily News. "I don't think people expect it to be good."

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Freeman obviously aimed to make the dishes delicious and claims it was less hard than he imagined.

"The funny thing is it's not that hard. I'm amazed no one else is doing this. Cornballs are just deep-fried corn, the only thing I did was add brown butter," Freeman says.

For example, Lindsay Bluth's "hot ham water"
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Cute Iowa toddler awaits ‘smile surgery’
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By Nadine Kalinauskas | Shine On – Fri, 24 May, 2013 1:54 PM EDT
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One-year-old Preston Tassi cannot smile.

The adorable toddler from Des Moines, Iowa, was born with Moebius Syndrome, sometimes called "China Doll Syndrome," a rare neurological syndrome that affects the muscles in his face.

Preston's family has already raised more than $9,000 of their $100,000 goal. (Smiles for Preston)His eyes are almost always open. He cannot look from side to side. With no facial muscular control, smiling is impossible.

He can't even close his lips around a bottle.

"As we feed him we have to hold his cheeks in,” Preston's mother, Sarah Tassi, tells KCCI.

Also see: Rare conditions prevents boy from eating food

Preston's parents, Jason and Sarah Tassi, are currently raising awareness for this rare condition and trying to raise the funds needed for their son to under an expense re-animation surgery, or "smile surgery," when he gets a little older, likely around the age of five.

"The 'Smile Surgery' is performed in only a few places; a few that we know of are St. Louis, Boston, Seattle, and Los Angeles, and are researching these hospitals now," the Tassis write. "The
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